6 months ago
Base Salary
$165k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build workflows, services, and internal tools that accelerate security.
- Improve organizational security maturity through mentoring, risk metrics, leadership influence, and security-enabling collaboration.
- Continuously improve systems using false positives, operational feedback, and evolving threat signals.
- Act as a senior technical authority during high-severity incidents, leading root cause analysis and durable architectural improvements.
Requirements
- Own security initiatives end to end, including post-launch validation, monitoring, and iterative improvement.
- Perform security reviews such as design reviews, threat modeling, and architecture assessments, and drive actionable outcomes.
- Identify, investigate, and remediate complex security issues across one or more domains.
- Develop code and build services addressing unique security needs.
- Use AI-assisted code generation, analysis, or investigation tools while maintaining security and quality standards.
- Preferred: experience with diverse data domains, AI/ML security risks, Kubernetes-hosted applications, security orchestration tools, and regulated-environment security controls.
- Preferred: experience partnering with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams.
Benefits
- Remote, San Mateo, Columbus, or Austin work locations, with East/West Coast time-zone requirements.
- Regular onsite collaboration sessions, typically once or twice per quarter for 2–4 consecutive days.
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, ESPP, health savings account contributions, disability coverage, paid time off, holidays, and family and parental leave.
- Family-centered fertility, parenthood, and caregiving benefits through Carrot and Cleo, plus an Employee Assistance Program.
- Annual wellness and productivity allowances, employee resource groups, team events, and onsite office perks including catered lunches and stocked micro-kitchens.
Tech Stack
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About Upstart
Upstart builds an AI-powered lending marketplace and cloud software that connect consumers to banks and credit unions for personal, auto, and home-equity credit. Lenders use Upstart’s credit models and applications to automate originations, while Upstart earns platform and referral fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Upstart is a public company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker UPST.